A song that mentions a piece of art (movie, sculpture, poem, whatev.)
A few ideas:
"Vincent" by Don McLean (Van Gogh's Starry Night)
"Mona Lisa" by Nat "King" Cole
"Dangling Conversation" by Simon and Garfunkel (doesn't mention any particular poem, but name-checks Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost)
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Deep Blue Something
"Love Is Just Around the Corner" by Bing Crosby (Venus de Milo)
"You're the Top," written by Cole Porter, recorded by Ethel Merman among others (many, including the Mona Lisa, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Dante's Inferno, and Whistler's Mother)
"Harper Valley P.T.A" by Jeannie C. Riley (Peyton Place)
"Dangling Conversation" by Simon and Garfunkel (doesn't mention any particular poem, but name-checks Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost)
Heh. That's the first song that came to my mind, Fred.
2HB
by Roxy Music is about Bogie, but I can't remember if it mentions or alludes to a particular film or films.
"Harper Valley P.T.A" by Jeannie C. Riley (Peyton Place)
I love this song! When I hear it, I am 7 years old and eating fishsticks and mac and cheese on my Disney TV tray in front of the TV. I know the song is from the late 60s, but it is connected to the 80s sitcom in my mind forever.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Oh and
"Dangling Conversation" by Simon and Garfunkel
Is on the "I-can't-hear-it-ever-again" list due to being a bad-ex-boyfriend-reminder. Unfortunately.
Oh, rats. Now I'm really going:
"Western Movies" by the Olympics (numerous TV Westerns of the '50s)
"Searchin'" by the Coasters (numerous fictional detectives)
"Don't Stand So Close to Me" by the Police (Nabokov's Lolita)
"Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" by Allan Sherman (Ulysses)
"Rocket 2 U" by the Jets (All My Children)
"Roll Over Beethoven" by Chuck Berry, later covered by ELO (name-checks Beethoven and Tchaikovsky)
2HB by Roxy Music is about Bogie
"Key Largo" and "Casablanca" by Bertie Higgins also center around him. "Key Largo" includes the line "Here's lookin' at you, kid."
"Brown Eyed Handsome Man by Chuck Berry:
Marlo [sic] Venus was a beautiful lass
Had the world in the palm of her hand
Lost both her arms in a wrasslin' match
To meet a brown eyed handsome man
She fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome man.
Really? The soap opera?
Yes. I don't remember the exact words, but the idea is that the TV's broken, so she can't watch her soap.
There's also an obscure tribute to General Hospital called "General Hospi-tale" by the Afternoon Delights, which had a very brief moment of popularity in the early '80s.
A song that mentions a piece of art (movie, sculpture, poem, whatev.)
There's always the Jonathan Richman hits "Pablo Picasso" and "Vincent Van Gogh".
